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New York: Harper & Brothers, publishers, 1959 ¶ Translated by Bernard Wall. An early printing (with the publisher's date-code "A-K" for January 1960, on the title verso). ||| Collation: In 16s (210 x 142 mm irregular): Pp. 318. Binding: Blue cloth. Reference: LCCN 59005154. .

New York: Soho Press, 1987 ¶ FIRST EDITION (with statement "FIRST EDITION" on the title verso). ||| Collation: In 16s (233 x 155 mm): Pp. [v], 296 [297]. Binding: Quarter blue cloth, dust-jacket. Condition: A fine copy. Reference: ISBN 0939149028. .

New York: Longman, 2003   ¶ ONLY EDITION, first printing; comprising some forty-one readings from Johannes Trithemius, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, S. L. Clemens, Jorge Luis Borges, Malcolm X, Nicholson Baker, E. D. Hirsch, and others. This copy is SIGNED by the editors.   ||| Collation: 234 x 179 mm: Pp [i-ii] iii-xv [xvi blank], 1-544.  Illustration: Illustrations after Jean-Michel Lengrand (b. 1955) and others, facsimiles.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: As new. .

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1890     ¶ Originally subtitled un "Tableau de la situation actuelle des nobles et des paysans dans les provinces russes", Charrière's translation captured well the social moment of Turgenev's satires, which were instrumental in bringing about the abolition of serfdom under Alexander II.   ||| At head of title: Ivan Tourguéneff.  Series: Bibliothèque des meilleurs romans étrangers.  Collation: Two volumes in 8s (183 x 118 mm); paginated [i-v] vi-xix [xx], [1] 2-254 [255-256]; [i-iv], [1] 2-241 [242-244].  Binding: Early green rib-grain cloth lettered in gilt, publisher's advertisement (for the series, 4 pages) at end.  Condition: Very good, partly unopened.  Provenance: Beatrice Reiter Leval (1911-2004), of New York, picture-collector..